Recovery for the Revolution

• Resisting Plague: Combatting Covid through Harm Reduction and Recovery Practices - Ep. 10

  Resisting covid resists colonial, capitalist violence. Resisting covid honors the trans and queer, Black, Indigenous, and people of color, disabled, immunocompromised, drug using, s3x worker, HIV+ ancestors who did everything so we can live. According to the World Health Organization, 7 million people have died from covid since the start of the pandemic, and nearly 780 million covid cases have been reported across the globe since the start of the pandemic. With so many covid cases, hundreds of millions of us have been put at risk of developing long covid, which can lead to brain damage, increased risk of heart attacks, including among young people, and increased risk of becoming immunocompromised.  In this episode, host Carolyn Collado (they/them) outlines how the government and collective pressure to bypass covid has played out. They offer space for us to process and grieve what this pandemic has cost us, and offer harm reduction and recovery practices around people pleasing, perfectionism, and boundary setting to help us resist this mass disabling, mass unaliving event. Carolyn highlights the lineages of Indigenous genocide from plague, and the lineages of harm reduction stemming from the HIV/AIDS epidemic of the 80s and 90s to call us to resist this plague in honor of our ancestors. 00:00 - Intro 02:17 - government gaslighting around covid’s impact  16:26 - grieving what we’ve lost with the covid19 pandemic  18:12 - why should we care about covid in 2025 and beyond 22:45 - taking covid precautions to honor our ancestors and resist systemic oppression 29:24 - grieving what we’ve lost to covid 34:17 - how to use harm reduction to navigate life in pandemic times  56:00 - recovery principles to help resist covid 01:14:00 - covid precautions as ancestral veneration 01:33:23 - how do we resist covid systemically  Subscribe to our ⁠Patreon⁠ $3 from everyone viewing would help make this work sustainable! ⁠⁠⁠http://patreon.com/recoveryfortherevolution⁠⁠⁠ Purchase the ⁠Recovering Under Racial Capitalism Journal ebook⁠  ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://recovery-for-the-revolution.ck.page/products/recovering-under-racial-capi⁠⁠⁠⁠ Support the Shaheen family in 🍉 https://chuffed.org/project/hodafund Book a ⁠1:1 Decolonizing Recovery Coaching Session with Me⁠  ⁠⁠⁠https://calendly.com/recoveryfortherevolution/decolonizing-recovery-coaching⁠⁠⁠ Sign up for the Unsettling Recovery waitlist ⁠⁠ https://forms.gle/wNVG1KJu4PdZw4zU7

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• Election 2024 Aftercare: processing and planning how we care for ourselves and each other with the election results - Ep. 9

  Election Day and the aftermath has been rough. In this episode, Host Carolyn Collado (they/them), and guest, Laila Makled (they/he) overview some of the themes, conflict, and connections that arose in the aftermath of the 2024 Election in the US imperial core. They reflect on their own grief and processing since Election Day, share strategies for building systems of care and community, and contemplate the question of who to organize with. They discuss fears and realities of living through another four years of a Donald Trump presidency, and trends around gender, race, class and education as it relates to where people are voting. They also touch on the complexities around how grief showed itself across the political ideology, class, racial, and gender spectrum. Along those lines, they note the facts of just how many voting-age people didn’t vote at all, and how this may be a signal for just how many people are out there desiring something different. They close with the importance of building shared language around who we are as a movement, and how story telling, mutual aid, harm reduction, resistance, and gathering can be pillars of hope as we move forward. Event planning workbook: https://outtherecommunication.net/blog/eventplanningworkbookAlternatives to calling the police in the “United States” and “Canada”: https://dontcallthepolice.com/Mental health crisis resources that don’t call the police: https://www.inclusivetherapists.com/contact#crisisLaila offers workshops, coaching, and consulting on care, communication and conflict for communities and organizations. Follow Laila, sign up for their newsletter, and check out more of their work at outtherecommunication.net or @out_there_communication on Instagram Purchase the ⁠Recovering Under Racial Capitalism Journal ebook⁠ ⁠⁠⁠https://recovery-for-the-revolution.ck.page/products/recovering-under-racial-capi⁠⁠⁠Subscribe to our ⁠Patreon⁠ $3 from everyone viewing would help make this work sustainable!⁠⁠⁠http://patreon.com/recoveryfortherevolution⁠⁠⁠Support the Shaheen familyhttps://chuffed.org/project/hodafundBook a ⁠1:1 Decolonizing Recovery Coaching Session with Me⁠ ⁠⁠⁠https://calendly.com/recoveryfortherevolution/decolonizing-recovery-coaching⁠⁠⁠Sign up for the Unsettling Recovery waitlist ⁠⁠ https://forms.gle/wNVG1KJu4PdZw4zU7

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• How to get through capitalist, colonial holidays in recovery

  We're often told in recovery that we have to survive Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years. In this episode, host Carolyn Collado (they/them) reflects on why the holiday season can be challenging for those on a recovery journey. They talk about the colonial root of these holidays, the family dynamics that might harm us, the struggles around pressure to drink and use other substances, or the grief and trauma of the impact other peoples struggles around drinking and other substances. They explore perfectionism and the pressure to be perfect during the holidays, struggles with eating, weight, bodily autonomy, differing covid boundaries, and religious trauma. They offer reflection on what you might want to do for the holidays, and harm reductionist ideas around substance consumption, boundary setting, and strategies to navigate these holidays. Purchase the ⁠Recovering Under Racial Capitalism Journal ebook⁠  ⁠⁠https://recovery-for-the-revolution.ck.page/products/recovering-under-racial-capi⁠⁠ Subscribe to our ⁠Patreon⁠ $3 from everyone viewing would help make this work sustainable! ⁠⁠http://patreon.com/recoveryfortherevolution⁠⁠ Support the Shaheen family https://chuffed.org/project/hodafund?https://chuffed.org/project/hodafund Book a ⁠1:1 Decolonizing Recovery Coaching Session with Me⁠  ⁠⁠https://calendly.com/recoveryfortherevolution/decolonizing-recovery-coaching⁠⁠ Sign up for the Unsettling Recovery waitlist ⁠ https://forms.gle/wNVG1KJu4PdZw4zU7 :00 - Intro 01:32 -  the holidays as colonial propaganda  06:24 - Family Impact during the holidays  10:22 pressure around our relationship with food 14:28 - the holidays and expectations to drink and use other substances  16:22 - the holidays and the pressure to be perfect 17:34 - boundaries and body autonomy with family  19:41 - Navigating Covid boundaries with family  20:36 - Family and religious trauma 22:34- Grieving having different values from family and ongoing unaliving in Palestine  27:14 - how to decide how to navigate the holidays 31:26 - harm reduction in navigating the holidays 36:11 - boundary setting with family over the holidays 36:41 - holding gentleness with family impact on us during the holidays 39:58 - gathering with community to navigate the holidays

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• No matter who wins the election... - Ep. 7

  No matter what happens on Election Day, one thing won’t change: our need for each other and community. In this episode, Host Carolyn Collado (they/them), and guest, Laila Makled (they/he) discuss preparing for Election Day in the imperial core, what it means to have choice, and grounding in our north star of building power to end racial capitalism. They acknowledge the grief that came with seeing so many who were disgusted by Joe Biden’s funding of genocide, so quickly jumped to the Kamala Harris train, and how they’re feeling now. They discuss the history of harm reduction and the war on drugs, lawful evil (Harris) vs. chaotic evil (Trump), FBI surveillance of our movements, and what it means to vote when the system itself is pro-genocide. They reflect on the hope Uncommitted Movement brings; and while people have been moved to action by the Palestinian genocide, there are many ways the depths of the horror and how they are tied to our day-to-day lives have not been internalized. With that, they offer grounding & next steps as we move forward from this moment together. Laila offers workshops, coaching, and consulting on care, communication and conflict for communities and organizations. Follow Laila, sign up for their newsletter, and check out more of their work at outtherecommunication.net or @out_there_communication on Instagram Purchase the ⁠Recovering Under Racial Capitalism Journal ebook⁠  ⁠⁠https://recovery-for-the-revolution.ck.page/products/recovering-under-racial-capi⁠⁠ Subscribe to our ⁠Patreon⁠ $3 from everyone viewing would help make this work sustainable! ⁠⁠http://patreon.com/recoveryfortherevolution⁠⁠ Book a ⁠1:1 Decolonizing Recovery Coaching Session with Me⁠  ⁠⁠https://calendly.com/recoveryfortherevolution/decolonizing-recovery-coaching⁠⁠ Sign up for the Unsettling Recovery waitlist ⁠ https://forms.gle/wNVG1KJu4PdZw4zU7⁠

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• Grieving what we lose as we try to get free - Ep. 6

  When you pursue collective liberation, you will lose people, places, and things. In this episode, host Carolyn Collado (they/them) discusses their journey of loss in pursuit of collective liberation, deconditioning from systemic oppression, and reflects on collective traumas like the covid 19 pandemic and the aftermath of the lockdown as society abandoned collective care, the racial uprisings of 2020 and the abandoning of Black liberation movements once it stopped trending, witnessing genocide in Palestine, and the grief in witnessing support of Kamala Harris in the face of her direct complicity with the genocide. All of these events have led to a lot of losses in relationships with others like family, friends, and lovers, with how we navigate capitalism, and how we navigate our society, and we don't talk about the grief of these changes and losses enough. Purchase the ⁠Recovering Under Racial Capitalism Journal ebook⁠  ⁠https://recovery-for-the-revolution.ck.page/products/recovering-under-racial-capi⁠ Subscribe to our ⁠Patreon⁠ $3 from everyone viewing would help make this work sustainable! ⁠http://patreon.com/recoveryfortherevolution⁠ Book a ⁠1:1 Decolonizing Recovery Coaching Session with Me⁠  ⁠https://calendly.com/recoveryfortherevolution/decolonizing-recovery-coaching⁠ Sign up for the Unsettling Recovery waitlist  https://forms.gle/wNVG1KJu4PdZw4zU7 Timestamps 0:00 Intro 01:17 - capitalism punishes us if we don’t conform to social norms 05:04 - queerness and losing relationships with family and peers 07:24 - race, respectability, and losing people, places, and things 09:10 - racism in Alcoholics Anonymous and struggles to recovering from systemic oppression 15:19 - 2020, covid 19, and collective loss  21:48 - coming into gender and sexual identity in 2020 27:12 - neurodivergence and disability learning in 2020 31:08 covid19 pandemic and collective care loss  40:41 - grieving witnessing a year of mass unaliving 45:29 - grieving the crunch of capitalism 47:43 - the grief of people supporting Kamala Harris in the face of her complicity with genocide 50:05 - dating and vetting based on collective grief and values 51:02 - questions for reflection and calls for community building

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